Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America Book

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages. Read More

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  • 0226511669
  • 9780226511665
  • Elaine Tyler May
  • 1 December 1980
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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